The Virtue of Nationalism, Yoram Hazony
The Virtue of Nationalism, Yoram Hazony
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The Virtue of Nationalism

Author: Yoram Hazony

Narrator: JD Zimmer

Unabridged: 9 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 06/24/2025


Synopsis

“An exacting look at gentrification” (New York Times Book Review)—and the lives devastated in the process

The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don’t realize just how threatening it is. It means more than the arrival of trendy shops, much-maligned hipsters, and expensive lattes. The very future of American cities as vibrant, equitable spaces hangs in the balance. 

A vigorous exposé revealing who holds power in our cities, How to Kill a City uncovers the massive systemic forces behind gentrification in New Orleans, Detroit, San Francisco, and New York. Now with a new preface reflecting on the present-day political landscape surrounding the housing crisis, How to Kill a City is essential reading for anyone who cares about the fate of our cities and our nation. 

About Yoram Hazony

Yoram Hazony, the chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation and president of the Herzl Institute, is a leading proponent of the National Conservatism movement, which is reinvigorating the American and European right. His previous book, The Virtue of Nationalism, won the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s Conservative Book of the Year award in 2019. A graduate of Princeton (BA) and Rutgers (PhD), he lives in Jerusalem with his wife and children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Murtaza on April 18, 2019

I will write a longer review soon. In short this book is a repetitive restatement of traditional illiberal views on political order, framed within a larger effort at apologia for the modern state of Israel.......more

Goodreads review by Alex on November 13, 2018

A barely passing-grade worthy defense of what should be a pretty defensible thesis. I’ll start with a few of Hazony’s winning gambits. He kicks it off with framing Hebrew Bible as a plea for national independence in the face of ever-changing Fertile Crescent empires, I like it already! He then rapid......more

Goodreads review by Douglas on March 19, 2019

This is a superb book, long overdue.......more

Goodreads review by Sara Bennett on September 30, 2018

Eye opening In this book Yoram Hazony has opened my eyes to the best system for maintaining the rights and dignity of the greatest number of people in the world. He has truly changed my view of the world. I recommend this book to anyone who wishes to better understand the competing forces in world p......more

Goodreads review by Hang on September 12, 2018

This is an excellent book. Hazony uses basic anthropology and the Bible to debunk enlightenment thinkers such as Locke who build an entire edifice upon extremely shaky grounds. While Locke comes in for criticism, it is Kant who is the true progenitor of current problems. There is no universal cultur......more


Quotes

"A new book that will become a classic.... Yoram Hazony has written a magnificent affirmation of democratic nationalism and sovereignty. The book is a tour de force that has the potential to significantly shape the debate between the supporters of supranational globalism and those of national-state democracy."—National Review

"One of the most important books on one of the most important controversies of our time."—New Criterion

"[Hazony] cogently argues in the book that anyone who values his freedom should reject universalism and fight for a future of nations... [an] excellent book."—City Journal

"Hazony is both erudite and well reasoned."—American Conservative

"The Virtue of Nationalism is a brilliant achievement, at once learned and sharp, philosophical and politically engaged."—Jewish Review of Books

"A concise, thoughtful, strongly put case that resurgent nationalism is reason not for concern but for relief."—New York Sun

"Hazony presents a vigorous case for nationalism and its virtues."—National Interest

"The catastrophic failure of the liberal program opens the way for a new kind of political thinking, and Hazony offers a timely contribution to the debate."—Tablet

"Important.... Hazony continues to do a service in reviving the theory of nationalism at a moment when its empirical manifestations have become impossible to ignore. He also presents a model of engaged political philosophy--learned yet accessible, spirited but not excessively hostile."—Modern Age

"A thought-provoking book."—Publishers Weekly